The question of jurisdiction raised some little time ago in connection with a case wherein five Chinese were charged with unlawful possession of 18 Mauser pistols, found by the Police when a raid was made on a house in Yung Eu Li alleyway, off North Szechuen Road, on June 16 last, was settled in the Provisional Court, on August 15, when the Court' refused to take jurisdiction and ordered thit the accused should be handed over to the Chinese authorities.
The house where the pistols were found is situated in an alley-way se hose only entrance was from North Szechuen Road, and in consideration of this fact the Police contended that the Court always took jurisdiction in such eases.
Judge Hsiung, however, said that the offence was committed in Chinese territory, and the case was, therefore, one for the Chinese authorities.
AL the previous hearings, a re-pretentative of the Gendarmerie! Commissioner said that the pistols! had been ordered by the Nationalist Government through a Japanese, who} was sentenced in his Consular Court to 25 days' imprisonment for traifick. ing in arms.
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